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Authors: Charles Bukowski
—Seamus Cooney Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan
NOTES TO AFTERWORD
1
He had to suffer the complaints of his neighbors, though, and was forced to agreenot to type after 10 p.m. in his first apartment (see Jan. 28, 1964, p. 102).
2
Neeli Cherkovski made a similar point about Bukowski’s diction: “In the heart of the sixties he remained untouched by hippie terminology, employing it only sarcastically to prove a point” (
Hank
, p. 189). Curiously, one of the few literary allusions to familiar quotations that I have spotted in these letters is to Spenser’s remark that Chaucer is “a well of English undefiled” (Bukowski calls the Cantos “a well of Pounding unrecognized” [5]). (Another allusion is to the last lines of Eliot’s
Prufrock
.)
3
See Jack Kerouac, “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose” and “Essentialsof Spontaneous Prose” (1957), reprinted in
New American Story
, ed. Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley (New York: Grove Press, 1965), pp. 269-271.
4
Unpublished paper by Russell Harrison, whose
The Outsider As Insider: Essays on Charles Bukowski
is forthcoming from Black Sparrow Press.
5
Letter of June 23, 1965, not otherwise excerpted in the present volume.
6
To Louis Delpino, August 2, 1967.
7
Jonathan Raban,
The New Republic
(7/19-26/93), p. 35.
The Index lists the recipients of the letters and other persons mentioned in them, as well as titles of literary works and magazines.
A
“Absence of the Hero” (Bukowski)
Acid
(magazine)
Aiken, Conrad
Aldington, Richard
All the Assholes in the World and Mine
(Bukowski)
America Is in the Heart
(Bulosan)
The Anatomy of Love
(Corrington)
Anderson, Sherwood
Apple Records
Aristotle
Arrows of Longing
(Orlovitz)
Artaud, Antonin
Asphodel Books
The Atlantic
(magazine)
At Terror Street and Agony Way
(Bukowski)
“At the End of Feet the Blackbird Walks” (Bukowski)
Auden, W. H.
B
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Baker, Jane Cooney
Baldwin, James
Balzac, Honoré de
Bauman.
See
Menebroker, Ann Bauman
Beatitude
(magazine)
Beery, Wallace
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Behan, Brendan
Beiles, Sinclair
Bell, Marvin
Bennett, John
Best Poems of 1963
Bevan, Alan
Biggs, E. Power
“The Birds” (Bukowski)
Blackburn, Paul
Black Cat Review
(magazine)
Black Mountain
Black Sparrow Press
Black Sun Press
Blake, William
Blast
(magazine)
Blazek, Douglas
Bly, Robert
Boccaccio, Giovanni
“The Body” (Bukowski)
Bogart, Humphrey
Bonheim, Helmut
Border Press
Borestone Awards
Braddock, Jersey Joe
Brahms, Johannes
Breakthru
(magazine)
Brecht, Bertolt
Brooke, Rupert
Broom
(magazine)
Brothers Karamazov
(Dostoevsky)
Bruckner, Anton
Bryan, John
Bukowski, Marina
A Bukowski Sampler
Bulosan, Carlos
Bunin, Ivan
Burnett, Whit
Burroughs, William
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
C
Cage, John
Camus, Albert
“Candidate Middle of Left-Right Center” (Bukowski)
Canto
(magazine)
The Cantos
(Pound)
Capone, Al
Cassady, Neal
Celine, Louis Ferdinand
Cerf, Bennett
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chat Noir Review
(magazine)
Chatterton, Thomas
Chekhov, Anton
Cherry (Cherkovski), Neeli
Chicago Literary Times
. See
Literary Times
Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Photography
Chopin, Frederic
Coastlines
(magazine)
Coffin
(magazine)
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard
(Bukowski)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
“Confessions of a Coward and Man Hater” (Bukowski)
Confessions of a Man Insane Enough to Live with Beasts
(Bukowski)
Confucius
Congdon, Kirby
Conrad, Joseph
“The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, California” (Bukowski)
El Corno Emplumado
(magazine)
A Correspondence of Americans
(Hirschman)
Corrington, John William
Corso, Gregory
“The Corybant of Wit” (Bukowski)
Crane, Hart
Creeley, Robert
Crews, Judson
Crime and Punishment
(Dostoevsky)
Crosby, Caresse
Crucifix in a Deathhand
(Bukowski)
Crucifix (cont.)
Cummings, E. E.
The Curtains Are Waving
(Bukowski)
Cuscaden, R. R.
D
Dante
Dare
(magazine)
Davies, W. H.
Davis, Bette
The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
(Bukowski)
“The Dead Stay Alive Too Long…” (Bukowski)
Dean, James
“The Death of a Roach” (Bukowski)
“Death Wants More Death” (Bukowski)
Decade 1953
The Decameron
(Boccaccio)
DeLoach, Allen
Delpino, Louis
The Dial
(magazine)
Dickey, James (and/or William?)
“Dinner, Rain & Transport” (Bukowski)
DiPrima, Diane
Dohnanyi, Ernst von
Donleavy, J. P.
Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.)
Dorbin, Sanford
Dorn, Ed
Dos Passos, John
Dostoievsky, Fyodor
Down Here
(magazine)
Down, Off
&
Out
(Want-ling)
Doyle, Kirby
Duffy, William
Duncan, Robert
Dylan, Bob
E
Earth
(magazine)
Earth Rose
(Richmond)
Eckman, Frederic
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eliot, T. S.
Emanon
(magazine)
Epos
(magazine)
Esquire
(magazine)
Essex House
Evergreen Review
(magazine)
Evidence
(magazine)
F
Fante, John
Faulkner, William
Federman, Raymond
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Fett, Heinrich
The Fifties
(magazine)
“and Drinks” (Bukowski)
Fink, Robert
Finnegans Wake
(Joyce)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flame
(magazine)
Flaubert, Gustave
Flower, Fist and Bestial Wail
(Bukowski)
Ford, Henry
Forever Worship the Second Coming
(ed. Kryss)
Forrest, Michael
Fox, Hugh
Franck, César
Franklyn, A. Frederick
Freud, Sigmund
Frost, Robert
G
Gallows
(magazine)
Gandhi, Mahatma
Garbo, Greta
Gasoline
(Corso)
Genet, Jean
The Genius of the Crowd
(Bukowski)
The Gentleman from San Francisco
(Bunin)
Georgakas, Dan
Ginsberg, Allen
Gleason, Jackie
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Gogol, Nikolai
Goldwater, Barry
Gorki, Maxim
Gounod, Charles
Grainger, Percy
Grande Ronde Review
(magazine)
Griffith, E. V.
Grove Press
Guys and Dolls
Gysin, Brion
H
Hamsun, Knut
Handel, George Frederic
Hank
(Cherkovski)
Happiness Bastard
(Doyle)
Harlequin
(magazine)
Harpers
(magazine)
Haydn, Franz Joseph
H.D.
See
Doolittle, Hilda
Hearse
(magazine)
Hecht, Ben
Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry, O.
Hirschman, Jack
“His Wife the Painter” (Bukowski)
Hitler, Adolf
Hitler Painted Roses
(Richmond)
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hope, Bob
“The House” (Bukowski)
Housman, A. E.
Howl
(Ginsberg)
“Hunting Season” (Purdy)
Huxley, Aldous
I
“I Hate Old Postmen” (Corso)
Illuminations
(magazine)
International Bookfinders
Intrepid
(magazine)
Ionesco, Eugene
It Catches My Heart in Its Hands
(Bukowski)
J
Jacaranda
(magazine)
James, Henry
Jeffers, Robinson
Johnson, Kaye
Johnson, Lyndon
Jones, James
Jones, LeRoi
The Journal UnAmerican
(magazine)
Journey to the End of the Night
(Celine)
Joyce, James
K
Kabalevsky, Dmitri
Kafka, Franz
Kaja.
See
Johnson, Kaye
Kant, Immanuel
Kaye, Arnold
Keats, John
“Keats and Marlowe” (Bukowski)
Kelly, Robert
Kennedy, John F.
Kenyon Review
(magazine)
Kerouac, Jack
Kitt, Eartha
Klactoveedsedsteen
(magazine)
Klee, Paul
Kodaly, Zoltan
KPFK
Kretch, Richard
Kryss, T. L.
L
Lamantia, Philip
Lamar, Hedy
Larsen, Carl
Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns
(magazine)
The Laughing Rooster
(Layton)
Lawrence, D. H.
Layton, Irving
Leary, Timothy
A Legionere
(Mason)
“A Letter from Chuck Buk” (Pollak)
“Letter from the North” (Bukowski)
Levertov, Denise
Levy, D. A.
Lewis, Sinclair
Life
(magazine)
“The Life, Birth, and Death of an Underground Newspaper” (Bukowski)